Carl-Richard

One thing that ChatGPT is useful for is as an enhanced google directory in cases where you can easily control check if the information is true afterwards. For example, I asked it for a Bible verse that has a certain message, and I could easily control check if the verse actually exists, and I can also decide whether the interpretation of the message is OK.

For some reason, mosquitoes absolutely love me. When I traveled to Italy when I was like 12, I got swarmed by them and had huge lumps everywhere.

Meanwhile Christianity is like: 1 Corinthians 8:1 (NIV)

Meanwhile Leo: "only I am God-realized, you should listen to me if you want to increase your chances of getting there"

Imagine a bipedal lizard, like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.

Spirituality is more like "I'm pretending to reinvent knowledge that has existed for thousands of years in various religions and also pretending to do it all on my own while seeking help from various internet videos and forums, and joining churches like Actualized.org where we tell other religious people how not-awake they are and how our God is better than their God"

He could easily be a character in a TV show just by playing himself.

The science says that Christians are at least more mystical than non-Christians, so they can have that. Mysticism in Chinese Christians and Non-Christians: Measurement Invariance of the Mysticism Scale and Implications for the Mean Differences, March 2012, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 22(2), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239795159_Mysticism_in_Chinese_Christians_and_Non-Christians_Measurement_Invariance_of_the_Mysticism_Scale_and_Implications_for_the_Mean_Differences

I'm sorry. I chose to ignore the fact that Americans don't think about soccer by default. https://medium.com/@Dobens/understanding-the-hand-ball-rule-1cc09a7a223 But also, isn't it only possible to move the goal post in a soccer game? Isn't it stationary in American football?

I just thought that the reason most people and even I can stand listening to his obviously narcissistic rantings is that he is so extremely entertaining. It's like he is doing a show when he is speaking. And that is what makes him so dangerous

Yeah, and there is a difference between meditating and taking a wank, or listening to a Leo video and taking a wank, or contemplating reality and taking a wank. Taking a wank is fine as a means of experience, but I feel like we're talking about the most direct means of spiritual progress here (or at least that is what I think a church is supposed to be). Maybe the church can have its own program for people who aren't ready for that (but it doesn't have to be the only program). Actually, the church probably used to be like that, but then all those scared people took over. You're either moving the goal post or running with the ball in your hands, something like that

"Going to church is fine" vs. "being a Christian is fine".

But let's be frank, you're literally changing the goal post here relative to what you said earlier, right?

So maybe then there can be harm in going to church if the pastor is like "the devil tricked you into thinking that you were one with God?" If I could preach a bit: I think we need churches, but they need to be rid of misleading dogma like that (unless it fulfills a significant need for people who can't appreciate a more mystical approach). Maybe the church can be multi-layered to suit different people with different needs.

I was thinking interview them to figure out what they really believe, not preach to them like you usually do But wait, if they would show so much resistance to what you're preaching, what are you really saying when you say "they're doing their best to learn love"? Would they not welcome your message with open arms?

But will you interview these people?

Solution: practice more mindfulness and practice more playing the game. Accept that it will taper off. It will taper off less over time if you pratice enough. If you're practicing mindfulness during the game, you're not really playing the game. I have a term for this: "spiritual OCD"; intrusive thoughts about things like mindfulness or not being spiritual enough which actually impedes those things in a given activity. It's a big trap in spirituality which only robs you from the real fruits of the practice: being here, fully present in what you're doing.

Flow doesn't only depend on optimal challenge. It also depends on things like energy levels and fast action-response rates. Also, the challenge doesn't only come from the opponents. It comes from the way you generally interact with the game (the controls, etc.). For example, if you choose to do 5 operations per second vs. 0.5, that will greatly impact your ability to enter flow, and that also depends on your absolute skill level. You simply don't enter flow if you're a complete newbie at something. The energy levels, the familiarity with the basics, the processing speeds, just aren't there. You need some base level skill to get there.

Do mindfulness before playing, then play. Be fully immersed in whatever you're doing. That is how you become good.

When your skill level becomes very high, you'll be in a flow state regardless.

Over the summer, I made a few adjustments to my lifestyle that made me lose 2-3kg basically on accident. In the winter/early-spring, I started taking a 10-minute walk after dinner. I did so because I had started running some weeks earlier for the cardiovascular benefits, but I gave up because it made me feel like shit (as if my testosterone had been drained out of my body). The walk decreases the blood sugar spike from the meal, gets the circulation going and even boosts the immune system (I've only been sick once after that). Whether it improves my cardiovascular health to any significant degree is questionable, but it's better than nothing, and I like it (and it's a way to unwind). Over the summer, I started adding a 10-minute walk after my evening meal as well. Next, I started removing the crusts from my already limited amount of bread in the morning (lol, bear with me). I did this because I thought that the nasty chemicals from the baking process are concentrated in the crusts (evident by the darker color and more aromatic taste). This might not seem like a lot, but when I take the crusts and compare them to the overall amount of bread, it could be anything from 1/5th to 1/4th of the weight being removed. Over the course of days, weeks and months, this adds up. Slightly tweaking parts of your daily routine in a systematic fashion like this seems to be an easy way to get results. And finally, only in the last week or so, I started eating... pears ? Apparently, pears are a good source of chromium, and chromium is involved in maintaining the proper functioning of insulin. I'm used to eating some fruit at the end of the day anyway, so I started having one half to one whole pear along with my evening meal. I think it was after this that I started feeling a bit lighter (but it was probably not a huge change and maybe learning about the role of chromium just drew my attention to my already existing progress). It might be that the scale I used to weigh myself could be tricking me somewhat, as you tend to wear heavier clothes in the winter than in the summer, but I swear that I was hovering around 80-82kg in the winter/spring, while now I'm down to 77-79kg (the highest estimate was when I tried wearing my usual winter clothes). So yeah, this was just a fun story about how my summer has been going. Maybe you can take some inspiration from it if you want (but don't take inspiration from how late at night I wrote this ?).

I know, but I didn't really use to weigh myself that often, and I can't go back in time and change that ?

I sometimes imagine myself living out in the woods outside of all civilization, away from everything and everyone. Well, it looks like that might be a real possibility soon if you care about thinking clearly. Or at least get your literal tinfoil hats on. 13:15

What do you mean by Christianity?

That's true, but it depends on the person doing it (and what else they're doing).